Phoebe with ambassador taylor, was he assesssatisfied that thie was now behindti him . I dont really know, because when i responded, get ahold of the secretary, and he said i agree. I never knew i whether he reach out to the secretaryhe or not. That was sort of the end at one point in the text you said lets get on the phone, you said youre an individual that doesnt like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the 1 telephone, correct . I say that to everybody when something becomes more substantive than a few lines of text, i say, lets talk. Did you say that to ambassador taylor . I dont recall. I dont recall whether we spoke after that or whether he called the secretary. Basically, mr. Castor, wanted to get the notion across that ive gone as far as i can go with this, you need to youre the ambassador, you need to pick up the ball and run with it at this point. Okay. Just getting back to the irregular channel, did anyone else express any concerns to you abou
to the white house meeting. and lisa kenna responds, gord gordon, i ll pass to s. and s is secretary pompeo? correct. thank you, lisa. now, two days later, you have a text exchange with ambassador volker again. and this is at the end of it. but the earlier text which we don t have here, you may recall, includes the press statement, the revised press statement that includes burisma and the 2016 election. do you recall that? yes, if i could see it, that would be helpful. but yes. so, but you ultimately remembered that after your conversation with mr. giuliani, you did pass. along a statemen to the ukrainians that included burisma and the 2016 election, is that right? i think there were statements being passed back and forth between volker, the ukrainians,
an email to ulrich brechbuhl and lisa kenna. are you able to see that on your yeah, i can see it on the screen. okay. what is the subject of the email? ukraine. and can you read what you wrote there? mike, and i m referring to secretary pompeo, kurt and i negotiated a statement from zelensky to be delivered for our review in a day or two. the contents will hopefully make the boss happy enough to authorize an invitation. zelensky plans to have a big presser on the openness subject including specifics next week. and in your opening statement you said that the specifics what did the specifics represent? the 2016 and the burisma. and when you say the boss, who do you mean by that? president trump. and the invitation is what?
email that you reference in your opening statement that is a july 19th email. and who is this from? it looks like is it from me? i don t know. it s from fryou, i believe. that s from me to the group. now, who is the group? uh, people mentioned on the email. blair, kennen, mccormack, pompeo, mulvaney. who is robert blair? i believe he s a deputy chief of staff or an adviser to the chief of staff. and you ve already told us that lisa kena is the executive secretary for secretary pompeo. and who is mccormick? chief of staff to secretary
9th. september 9th is a key date. any time someone says call me, they don t want to answer. so bill taylor says, as i said on the phone, i think it s craze is to withhold assistance for a political campaign. and then the ig officially notifies congress of a whistle-blower complaint. we know that happened on the same day as this text. all of a sudden in a legalistic way, gordon sondland writes, i believe you are incredible about president trump s intentions. the president has been clears. no quid pro quos of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is truly going to i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. give lisa kena or s.a. a call to discuss them. mast amazing here is if you read the text exchange, gordon sondland s texts never sound like this until the last second